Jetpack Compose

Definitions

1. Google's modern declarative UI toolkit for Android, built with Kotlin. Replaces the traditional XML layout system with composable functions that describe UI as a function of state, inspired by React and Flutter's component model.

   In plain English: Android's new way of building user interfaces using Kotlin code instead of XML files — you describe what the screen should look like, and Compose handles the rendering.

   Example: "Jetpack Compose turned 200 lines of XML and findViewById calls into 30 lines of Kotlin."

Related Terms

• Component
• Coroutine
• Data Class
• Draw
• Event
• Extension Function
• Gradle
• Implicit Typing
• Input Map
• Val
• Focus Trap
• Agent Smith Attack